technology

In honour of it not only being Mother’s day (in the UK), but additionally my first Mother’s Day as a new Mother, I thought I would take the opportunity to write about my experience of pregnancy and after with regards to the tools, apps and sites I used to get this far (and am still […]

Finally having the time to sort through a lot of my open tabs and read later items and I thought I would share a few that stood out to me to help kick start the year. New year, new you: An Almost Foolproof Way to Achieve Every Goal You Set Recommended reading from Turner Hopkins […]

We have a treat this week with a guest post! Tony Wright is a Social Strategist at MRY and wanted to share his thoughts on Facebook’s SlingShot app. You’ve probably seen that Facebook recently launched its take on SnapChat in the form of Sling Shot. Sling Shot is a standalone app without Facebook branding, that lets […]

My contribution to 2014: What does it all mean? From DigitasLBi. Social goes back to basics. In 2014 we’ll see a rise in the simplification of the big social platforms: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more. Ironically, as companies invest more in their social strategies, more of them will shut down or decrease their number of […]

Nowadays, there are more implications to changing your name than ever before. Changing your online brand, correctly, with the right implications for search engines and to keep constancy across online platforms is convoluted at best. Not to mention being recognised against a previous personal brand and general attribution is more difficult and complicated than getting […]

After falling into a coma at 17 years old, and waking up 17 years later with a fully functioning mind, Karen was asked: “…how do you feel being here now? After so long. I mean, not just what’s new and different, but what does now feel like?” Karen’s response, which resonates to today, even though the […]

It’s simple and makes sense: bring users what they want and do it in one space. They’ve pulled a number of different element together: Shop for the clothes, buy the songs off iTunes, take quick pics of your favourite outfits and participate while tweeting, commenting, sharing – all through one dashboard. The only thing they […]

I LOVE Haloween. I LOVE Tetris, so obviously I love this Jack-O-Lantern that is a working game of Tetris! It’s called: Pumpktris and is a fully playable version of Tetris inside a carved pumpkin from the author of Haha Bird. Hat tip goes out to Collossal for sharing.

The majority of my life on computers – from about the age of five, have been relatively device agnostic. There was always a “PC” at home, running Microsoft or DOS and then an Apple Macintosh at school. With regards to Mac’s, the first I ever used was in elementary school and must have been the […]